The treatment of esthetics by Schiller influenced the conception of esthetics in Hegel’s lectures. The notion of appearance (Schein) acquired a fundamental importance in Hegel’s esthetics. Schiller had made it possible for “appearance” to be made the corner-stone of an esthetic system by enlarging its importance and rescuing it from the negative…[Read more]

Geringfügig überarbeiteter und erweiterter Vortrag im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung an der Universität Zürich zum Europäischen Roman im 19. Jahrhundert, 19. Mai 1998